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    The Few

    I know many of you have read this fabulous book, some of you several times.

    I keep finding tiny quotes that fill me with the need to share though....so sorry....you gotta read one more

    (or click Back and find summit else more interesting)

    the chapter on non UK pilots who joined the RAF has me hooked today.
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    New Zealander , Al Deere was, by all accounts a dedicated, slightly gung ho pilot, who loved the thick of battle. He had a mammoth appetite for flying and for food....
    Quote Originally Posted by The Few
    "Always the first to the breakfast table in Hornchurch mess, ready to wolf down the fried eggs of any pilots feeling off-colour, Deere's ebbulient cry, as the first bomber sweep approached Hornchurch, was long treasured by Squadron Leader Ronald Adam, one of the four Sector Controllers.
    " Christalbloodymighty," Adams heard Deere's voice vibrate in his headphones, "Ho, tally ho! Here they come -- fu cking hordes of them!"
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    Meantime
    Quote Originally Posted by The Few
    "Of the 23 South Africans egaged in the Battle (of Britain), the Supreme analyst of tactics, the pastmaster of survival, was 30-year-old Flight Lieutenant Adolph Gysbert Malan, known inevitably, after service as a Third Officer with the Union Castle Steamship Line, as "Sailor".
    " 'Sailor' was incomparably the greatest," Wing Co. Bouchier was to avow later, for few but 'Sailor' , commanding 74 Squadron at Hornchurch, would have taken the pains to compute that the Spitfire's four Browning machine guns, blasting 1,260 rounds a minute, possessed a fire-power equivalent to a five-ton truck hitting a brick wall at 60 miles an hour.
    In that era, when slow-paced and poorly armed Blenheims fought a losing battle against the menace of the night bomber, it took 'Sailor' Malan, airborne on the night of June 18 during a raid on Southend, to single out two Heinkels trapped by searchlight beams and put paid to both in ten minutes flat"
    now that kinda stuff makes ya shiver, doesn't it?

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    You need to read 9 lives mate by Al Deere

    Sailor was in the opinion of the best in the business (Johnson, Bader,Lucas, Deere, Stanford Tuck etc) The Best in The Business...He is responsible (along with Bader ) for point harmonisation of MGs instead of the shotgun effect advocated by high command..
    Last edited by Dakaras; 05-10-2004 at 09:00 PM.

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